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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
I pulled the numbers for 2008, which stated something like $8B as the NASA budget for that year. Canada's space budget for 2008 was about $350M.
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http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/168653main_N...et_Summary.pdf
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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
Telepresence allows performing surgery a hundred miles away. It can certainly be used to match sub assemblies. The fine tuning is where the human presence comes in. The point is that you don't need a thousand people on the moon in order to get the job done.
I'm not thinking tomorrow, but rather 50 years in the future.
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Telepresence does have limited application to the space program today. I'm sure both it and automation will play a part 50 years in the future (unlikely to be in my lifetime, the timeline I originally gave).
If you are talking 50 years in the future then why would we be sending men to the moon now? It isn't like we are going to forget how to do it. What we do today will have little impact on what happens 50 years from now.